April 12, 2020 Archives

Week of April 6, 2020 Archives

RealClearPolitics Evening Edition

Monday, April 6

Americans Want a United Fight Against COVID-19

Mark Penn, The Hill

A Healthy United States Needs a Healthy Economy

Miranda Devine, New York Post

This Is What Happens When a Narcissist Runs a Crisis

Jennifer Senior, NY Times

The Liberal Media's Coronavirus Double Standard

Sharyl Attkisson, Just the News

Your Sacrifices Are Saving Lives. Social Distancing Is Working

Inder Singh, Medium

Stay-at-Home Orders Create Perfect Storm for Swindlers

John Wasik, RCI

Governors Lead as Trump Flounders

Juan Williams, The Hill

Reporters Testing Privacy Limits on Thin Ice

Mark Hemingway, RealClearPolitics

Trump's Firing of Intelligence Community IG Is Egregious

Chris Cillizza, CNN

Why Michael Atkinson Roundly Deserved to Be Fired

Margot Cleveland, Federalist

The Only Way Is Through

Tom Brady, The Players' Tribune

Bandannas & Spatulas: My COVID Quarantine

Dave Barry, Miami Herald

Tuesday, April 7

Let's Zoom Xi. He Has Some Questions to Answer

Niall Ferguson, Globe & Mail

There's No Plan For End of Coronavirus Crisis

David Wallace-Wells, New York Magazine

White House Aims to Reopen Economy Next 4 to 8 Weeks

Jack Phillips, Epoch Times

We've No Choice But to Stay Locked Down for 12-18 Months

Zeke Emanuel, MSNBC

Public More Worried About Loss of Jobs Than Virus

Carrie Sheffield, Just the News

What America Needs Next: A Joe Biden Unity Cabinet

Thomas Friedman, NY Times

Is Biden Weaker Today Than Hillary Was in 2016?

Byron York, Washington Examiner

Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Protect Your Right to Vote

Ari Berman, Mother Jones

Mail-In Ballots Make Voter Fraud Easy. I Know Because I Did It

Margaret Menge, IS

Newspaper Industry Was Already Sick. Will the Virus Kill It?

Art Cullen, The Guardian

Virus Response Elevates Pharma in Public's Eye

Jack Kalavritinos, RealClearPolitics

Adulation of Michael Jordan More Powerful Than Ever

Rick Morrissey, Sun-Times

Wednesday, April 8

Conceding the Inevitable, Sanders Bows Out, Backs Biden

Phil Wegmann, RCP

Sanders Only Had Eyes for One Wing of the Democratic Party

Thomas Edsall, NYT

Crisis Calls for More Herd Immunity, Less Herd Mentality

Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Hill

Does COVID-19 Really Cause ARDS?

Cameron Kyle-Sidell

Trump Falling Into the Trap of the Ruling Class

Angelo Codevilla, American Greatness

The Coronavirus Is Turning the States Against One Another

Joshua Keating, Slate

What U.S. Loses w/Every Shuttered Main Street Restaurant

Hans Fiene, Federalist

Trump's IG Purges Add Fuel to Oversight Controversies

Susan Crabtree, RCP

The Pain of Family Separation During COVID-19 Crisis

Martin Wolf, Financial Times

Mayor Lightfoot: A Modern-Day Marie Antoinette

Steve Cortes, RealClearPolitics

A Lamentation for Churches Closed at Easter by Pandemic

John Kass, Chicago Trib

Trump Job Approval: Monmouth 46% | CNN 44% | CNBC 46% | Quinnipiac 45%

Thursday, April 9

U.S. Approach to Public Health: Neglect, Panic, Repeat

Jeneen Interlandi, NY Times

There Are Serious Downsides to Media Alarmism

Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist

Hydroxy Hysteria and Trump's Different View of 'Expertise'

Ramin Oskoui, The Hill

Why Michigan and Florida Might Turn Against Trump

Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic

Did Gov. DeSantis Make the Right Call in Florida?

Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics

What U.S. Needs Next: A Biden National Unity Cabinet

Thomas Friedman, NY Times

Declassified Russia Case Notes Likely to Raise New Concerns

John Solomon, JTN

WHO Chief Confirms He Is Beijing's Useful Idiot

Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner

China's Coronavirus Statistics Aren't the Real Problem

Wallace & Weiss, LA Times

Coronavirus Is a Preview of Climate-Change Future

David Wallace-Wells, NY Magazine

How Did the Experts Screw Up Covid Models So Badly?

Tucker Carlson, FOX News

Trump vs. Biden: FOX News: Tied @ 42 | CNN: Biden +11 | Monmouth: Biden +4

Friday, April 10

Covid-19 Projection Models Are Proving to Be Unreliable

Andrew McCarthy, NRO

Michigan's Whitmer in the Spotlight Against Bullying Trump

Tim Alberta, Politico

Time to Rethink Universal Lockdowns?

Peder Zane, Raleigh News & Observer

Russia Probe Abuses Far More Troubling Than Just Mistakes

William Barr, Fox News

High Court's Wisconsin Decision Was Reckless Partisanship

Garrett Epps, Atlantic

When Media Advertising Boycotts Backfire

Mark Hemingway, RealClearPolitics

Barack Obama Wins the Democratic Primary

Ryan Lizza, Politico

How the Anti-Populists Stopped Bernie Sanders

Thomas Frank, Harper's Magazine

American Truckers--Our Newest First Responders

Salena Zito, Washington Examiner

It's Time for Conscious Uncoupling With China

Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine

Infection Count vs. Jobless Data: An Imbalanced TV Picture

Kalev Leetaru, RCP

Sunday, April 12

A Holy Week Amid a National Tribulation

Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal

How God Can Show Up in Unexpected Ways (Even on Zoom)

Amy Butler, NBC News

Where Is the Vigorous Debate About Our Response to Virus?

John Lee, Spectator

Inside America's Two-Decade Failure to Prepare for Virus

Dan Diamond, Politico

Comparing Coronavirus, Governors in the Upper Midwest

John Hinderaker, Powerline

My Plan to Reopen America After the Coronavirus

Joe Biden, New York Times

If Biden Were President Our COVID-19 Fallout Would Be Worse

Herman Cain, RCP

For China, the ‘USA Virus’ Is a Geopolitical Ploy

Renée DiResta, The Atlantic

How to Make China's Communist Party Pay

Sen. Tom Cotton, FOX News

How Anthony Fauci Became America's Doctor

Michael Specter, The New Yorker

The Surgeon General Meets the Language Police

John McWhorter, The Atlantic